YouTrack 4.0.1 On Netgear Readynas – step by step

For a while now i have been thinking about installing “YouTrack” on my Netgear Readynas Ultra 6. I searched the internet for guides and suggestions but didn’t really find anything besides from bits and pieces, here and there. So i decided to try installing it myself and share it with all who is trying do the same thing.

Installing JAVA

YouTrack is based on Java, and the first thing i noticed was that something was missing, Java was not pre installed. So the first thing i had to do, was to installing JAVA.

Step 1

First you have to install the addon “Enable Root SSH Access” to get access to your device. You can find it either on readynas homepage or on this link.
Complete the installation by rebooting your readynas.

Step 2

Step 3

Open putty and SSH into your readynas, enter the IP address and when it prompts for username enter “root” and then your normal readynas/frontpage “password”.

Step 4

Once logged onto your readynas as “root” your ready to get the the software setup. Keep in mind that when you are running as root, you have elevated priviliges and you can do anything you want, including messing things up.

Step 4

And finaly your done by running the following command “/etc/init.d/youtrack restart”, the startup process takes a couple of minutes so please be patient.

AND YOU ARE DONE

Browse to http://[Readynas ip]:[PORT]

One thing I noticed with my YouTrack installation, is that it didn’t always start properly on command start. So I had to open a browser to the YouTrack page. And at that moment the Java server started and i had to wait again for all the processes to start